Vernon Adams is gone, gone, gone to Oregon. To his credit, he bore down and got his degree at Eastern Washington before he exhausted his eligibility. That means he’s free to transfer to another school. It’s one of the few bones the NCAA throws student-athletes. It’s a reward for, well, being a true student-athlete. You work your ass off the right way, you get some control back over your football career.
And, naturally, that means it sucks for some coaches.
Vernon Adams passed for 658 yards and six touchdowns against Montana State the past two seasons, leading Eastern Washington to a victory each time.
Still, Bobcats coach Rob Ash is disappointed to see Adams transfer from the Big Sky to the Pac-12 and wants Football Championship Subdivision coaches to push to change the rule that allows the dynamic quarterback to play for Oregon next season.
”We’re Division I like the other level,” Ash said in a telephone interview. ”Our guys need to start and finish at the same school. We cannot be perceived as a farm system or Triple-A ballclub or anything like that.”
Cry me a river, Rob.
Oh, and stay classy, Eastern Washington.
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We’re Division I and we’re a farm team for Auburn, Louisville, and Bama, so no big deal.
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Stay classy? The guy will likely be the starting qb of their first game opponent.
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So what? He’s going to learn something new about EWU by working out there?
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Last time I checked you do not help the opponent in any way. Additionally, why would you want him around the team?
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Agreed, but is it prudent for the Eagle coach to bad mouth the qb of the team he opens with? Off topic but I see that Georgia State is making the trip to Oregon too. Bobo opens with Savannah State-0-12,2014.
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Pretty sure the kid busted his ass for that team for 3 years and took them to 2 playoff appearances. Now that he wants to move on, all they want to do is crap all over him like he is a screwing them over so bad.
Also EWU has set themselves up for it, Oregon is one of the few teams that probably could score over 100 in a game, don’t be surprised to see a 80+ pt score that first week.
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Yeap, it is a such a stupid story. The absolute best part is that this kid could have declared for the draft this year and you bet not a single damn person at EW would have been bitching about that.
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“We cannot be perceived as a farm system or Triple-A ballclub or anything like that.”
This is just such a ridiculous statement. Having 0.01% of your players transferring to another school under this rule does not make a farm system
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EWU is a rival of Ore? Who woulda thunk it?
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Wouldn’t being a Triple-A team for the big names in college football be a selling point at some of these places? If Eastern Washington could point to Adams’ success as a result of the coaching he received there could they not sell that to recruits who were overlooked by the big schools and get those players for 3 years.
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Somebody needs to chill out. Think about the monumental screw up that NC State and its former coach made by running off Russell Wilson. Hell UGA is a feeder school for the Alabama penal league and the Louisville wantabes.
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“I don’t see (Ohio State coach) Urban Meyer going to Northern Iowa for his next guy.”
That’s because Meyer isn’t in the market for a quarterback right now, Genius.
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